1945 to 21st Century

Victors, Colonialism and Cold War to 1975

The United Nations -- the founding, Roosevelt's hopes denied and the veto

Victors against the Defeated -- retributions, expropriations, occupations

The UN and Independence Movements -- Asia and Africa to the early 1960s

The Cold War, 1945-49 -- Stalin, Europe, the U.S. and revolution in China

The Korean War -- occupation, China intervenes, negotiations

Cold War: 1953 to Vietnam 1975 -- anti-Communism, the USSR, interventions

The Soviet Union Disintegrates -- Brezhnev, Gorbachev and reforms, freedoms in 1989

Latin America and new directions in the U.S. and Europe

Latin America -- Peron, Cuba to 1960, Argentina, Chile, et cetera.

The United States and Equal Rights, 1947-65 -- the human rights movement

The Sixties and Seventies from Berkeley to Woodstock -- Berkeley, the Panthers, dissipation

Failed Radicals in Europe -- unrest in France, Germany, Italy

Democracy and Dictatorship in Greece -- to 1974

Yugoslavia Disintegrates -- 1919 to the war in Kosovo

Africa and Asia

Africa into the Nineties -- from the 1960s to 1994

Japan, from 1946 into the 1990s -- from hunger to economic boom. Failed radicalism. Yukio Mishima

China from Mao to Deng Xiaoping -- from collective agriculture to the capitalist road

Indonesia and the Great Slaughter -- Sukarno loses power, 1965 to 1967

India and Pakistan -- Democratic India. Untouchables. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan

The Middle East

Jews and Arabs from WW2 to 1979 -- from World War II to the creation of Israel

The Iranian Revolution -- the Shah against dissent, victory for Islamic reactionaries

The Middle East, 1979-2000 -- the Siege of Mecca, intefadas, to the attack on the U.S.S. Cole

The Persian Gulf Wars to September 2003 -- from Saddam's rise to the beginning of Gulf War Two

Science and Philosophy

Camus and Sartre -- choice, creativity, angst and commitment in an uncaring universe

Hannah Arendt -- rewritten on February 6, 2010

Martin Heidegger -- as Bertrand Russell wrote: language "running riot."

Karl Popper -- versus Wittgenstein. The Open Society

A.J. Ayer -- Language, Truth and Logic

The Linguistics Wars -- Chomsky, Lakoff and Pinker

Knowledge, a "Postmodern" View -- limits to knowing. Edmund Gettier

Conservative Intellectuals from the 1950s -- William Buckley, Ayn Rand, Russell Kirk, Leo Strauss

Capitalism, Democracy and Wealth Distribution -- Fukuyama, from Roosevelt to Obama.

Inventing Morality -- the individual, the Roman Catholic view, moral relativism, government and democracy

Religion

Freedoms, Drifts and Restrictions after 1945 -- Japan, Communist states, and new worship.

Jim Jones and His People's Church

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